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notes of a train dispatcher: stations, lines, locomotives, timetables

A good dispatcher is boring

evergreen · planted 2025-11 · tended 2025-11

The job is done well when nothing happens. No delays, no stones in the river, no phone calls at four in the morning. Passengers do not know your name. If they do, something went wrong.

My father is a plumber and says it is the same trade. If you hear of him, the house has flooded. See What a dispatcher does.